Tuesday, July 08, 2008, 10:10 AM
…yeah sort of that but sort of not- but what the heck. It’s going to be a fine line at first because I do want to slowly contact some old peeps and see who back their somewhere “down the windy halls of friendship” (Neil Young in “Thrasher”- a great tune which by the way I do and soon will be made available for download…) just might want to or be willing anyhow to get involved in either some of this here Blogging or the larger effort of getting this whole thing of great social and political organizing import (with apologies this time of course to Janis from her seminal spoken preamble to “Mercedes Benz”
As I am doing this blogging I am thinking to myself as I quote old songs and movie lines and even try to give credit where it’s due when I remember it’s not my own line- cuz, like in some cases I have incorporated and imbedded some lines from “the kultchuh” so seamlessly that I don’t even know they came from anywhere but my own rich and fertile verbal skills- anyway, I’m thinking I could be linking folks right to those classic old tunes. And someday I will do just that…
Now more stuff culled for the Blog about the Blog and why Blog anyway…
Moved here 7/7/2008 6:52 AM…
dialogD Blog and Web Site Missions and Descriptions
O.K.- the dialogD Blog is going to be a very personal melded with the political ongoing journal of my research and various “takes” on the current political season but more importantly the various larger issues with respect to the overall state of our American Democracy as we approach first the November election and then ultimately the change in leadership, one way or another, in the Executive branch of our national government.
My Blogging effort is meant to be an ongoing communication effort as well as a free form free verse call to action on various issues and activist organizing that will be called for throughout. Whenever in the course of this Blogging process I come across a person or organization that is, from what I can tell, on the same page and/or actively doing something or writing about how to get going on what needs to be done about the crisis in our Democracy and collective aspirations for as Free and civil a society as possible- well I am just going to go ahead and contact those people and organizational entities and see about enlisting them in the organized civic and entrepreneurial activism that I propose throughout the dialogD Blog and Larger Web Presence… www.dialogdemocracy.org.
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The main way the Web Site will differ from the Blog is that it will offer more lengthy essays, position papers on issues, calls for political and organizing action, and the occasional bits of partisan bombast on the particulars being called for throughout the dialogdemocracy.org and any miscellaneous related other efforts or venues.
www.dialogdemocracy.org will also try to provide a workable organizational and central fundraising structure for what is being called for and proposed.
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A last couple thoughts on the “Daily Thou Regimen” (which, note to dear readers if ever there are any, refers to the effort to churn out at least a thousand little words words words each and every day- whether I need to or feel like it our not):
· Even though I don’t want to get too carried away with journalizing it is in point of fact again partly what Blogging itself is except that it is making your journal type writing (to a point and to an extent usually) for potentially anyone and everyone to see that you can get to pay attention to it. So the Daily thou is being revived specifically to kind of just get the whole doing this everyday thing back to the forefront and then meld into the ongoing real work, writing, and maybe activist entrepreneurial organizing efforts.
· And hopefully my own place in all of what that can be about and lead to just harmoniously works itself out and gives me enough of a “little something for myself” for me to be happy- so I don’t have to worry about where it leads- into the brush or out of the brush it don’t matter… that is what I have to let go and just breathe into about where I am positioned right now.
· But I do occasionally have the momentary flash of epiphenal insight. And when I have those somewhat rare and all to fleeting thought flashes on whatever the fuck- why at those times I want my efforts to be about things like the following to simply surge to the surface and out:
· The ideas of the Web Site and the various kinds of Bogging (ooh… one of them there Freudian slips that I love so good… meant of course to say “Blogging” just then) that can and will go along with it- and the implied communication and conscilience and collaboration that have to go along with all of it…
As much as I know what I am trying to do I sometimes forget that ultimately it is still me trying to be a writer- whether I get paid or not or “make it” or not or even if what I produce gets read or not. But I have to find a way again to get to a point where I have my strong voice that transcends all those ifs ands or big buttes about all of that. And finding my voice right here right now is what everyday forced journalizing and Quickwrites on various topics as they come up is specifically designed and meant to do.
